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Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll is Sony's anime-focused streaming service, founded in 2006, acquired via Funimation from AT&T in 2021 for $1.175 billion, and renamed Crunchyroll LLC in 2022. It serves 200+ countries with simulcasts, tiers from $7.99, and a subscriber-only store.

Crunchyroll Anime Award for Anime of the Year

Anime of the Year is the top prize of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards, held since 2017. Judges and fans pick the winner; past champions include Yuri on Ice, Solo Leveling, and My Hero Academia FINAL SEASON (2026).

Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character

Crunchyroll Anime Award for Best Character: character honors at the annual Crunchyroll Anime Awards (since 2017), now Best Main Character, Best Supporting Character, and "Must Protect At All Costs"; recent winners include Sung Jinwoo (2025) and Maomao (2026).

Crunchyroll Anime Awards

The Crunchyroll Anime Awards, held by Crunchyroll since 2017 in Tokyo, honor the year's best anime via two rounds of judge and fan voting across 32 categories; over 70 million votes in 2026 crowned My Hero Academia Final Season.

Crush (2013 film)

Crush (2013) is an American horror-thriller directed by Malik Bader, written by Sonny Mallhi, starring Lucas Till, Crystal Reed, and Sarah Bolger; a stalker thriller about a high school athlete, distinct from the 2013 Antwon Tanner video film of the same name.

Crush (原来我很爱你)

Crush (原来我很爱你, Yuan Lai Wo Hen Ai Ni) is a 2021 iQiyi Chinese urban romance web drama, 24 episodes, adapted from Mu Fu Sheng's novel, starring Lin Yanjun as blind songwriter Su Nianqin and Wan Peng as radio host Sang Wuyan, directed by Yu Cuihua.

Crushology 101 (크러시오로지 연구소)

Crushology 101 (바니와 오빠들; record title 크러시오로지 연구소) is a 2025 MBC Korean romantic-comedy series adapted from Ni Eun's Kakao webtoon, starring Roh Jeong-eui as Bunny, airing April 11 to May 17, 2025, in 12 episodes.

Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom (1987) is Richard Attenborough's biographical drama about Steve Biko and Donald Woods, starring Denzel Washington and Kevin Kline; three Oscar nominations, banned in South Africa in 1988.

Cry Macho (film)

Cry Macho is a 2021 American neo-Western drama directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as a former rodeo star hired to retrieve a boy from Mexico.

Cry to Heaven (film)

Cry to Heaven is Tom Ford's upcoming film adaptation of Anne Rice's 1982 novel about 18th-century Italian castrati, starring Adele in her acting debut with Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson; filmed in Italy in early 2026.

Cry Wolf (American TV series)

Cry Wolf is an upcoming FX American limited series (8 episodes), created and showrun by Sarah Treem, remaking the Danish 2020 series Ulven kommer. Olivia Colman plays social worker Kath opposite Brie Larson's April; filmed in Toronto, February to May 2026.

Cry-Baby

Cry-Baby (1990) is John Waters' musical comedy starring Johnny Depp as Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker, a 1954 Baltimore drape who romances a Square girl; Universal-backed, $7.5M gross, later a 2008 Broadway musical.

Crying Fist (주먹이 운다)

Crying Fist (주먹이 운다) is a 2005 South Korean boxing drama by Ryoo Seung-wan starring Choi Min-sik and Ryoo Seung-bum as two desperate men meeting in an amateur title final; it won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes 2005 Directors' Fortnight.

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ)

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ, Sekachu) is Isao Yukisada's 2004 Toho film adapting Kyoichi Katayama's novel, starring Osawa, Shibasaki, Nagasawa, and Moriyama; a 3.24-million-admission hit that sparked Japan's pure-love boom.

Crystal Bernard

Crystal Bernard (Crystal Lynn Bernard), American actress and country singer-songwriter born in Garland, Texas; played Helen Chappel Hackett on NBC's Wings (1990–97), K.C. on Happy Days, Amy on It's a Living; albums The Girl Next Door (1996) and Don't Touch Me There (1999).

Crystal Chappell

Crystal Chappell (born 1965, Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American soap actress, Emmy winner for Guiding Light's Olivia Spencer, also Carly Manning on Days of Our Lives, and creator of the web series Venice the Series.

Crystal Lake (TV series)

Crystal Lake is a 2026 Peacock and A24 horror prequel series to Friday the 13th, created by Brad Caleb Kane, starring Linda Cardellini as Pamela Voorhees; eight episodes premiered October 15, 2026 after Bryan Fuller's 2024 exit.

Crystal Lowe

Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe (born 1981, Vancouver) is a Canadian actress and director, a mid-2000s scream queen in Final Destination 3 and Black Christmas, and Rita Haywith on Hallmark's Signed, Sealed, Delivered; distinct from Krystal S. Lowe, the Welsh dancer-choreographer.

Crystal R. Fox

Crystal R. Fox (born 1965, Tryon, North Carolina) is an American actress, Officer Luann Corbin in In the Heat of the Night and Hanna Young in Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots, also a longtime Atlanta regional theater performer.

Crystal Reed

Crystal Reed (Crystal Marie Reed, born 1985, Detroit) is an American actress known for Allison Argent on Teen Wolf, Sofia Falcone on Gotham, and Abby Arcane on Swamp Thing, returning in Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023).

Crystal the Monkey

Crystal the Monkey, born 1994, is a female tufted capuchin animal actor trained by Tom Gunderson, known as Dexter in Night at the Museum and the drug-dealing monkey in The Hangover Part II, reportedly earning $12,000 per episode on Animal Practice.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the CBS forensic crime drama created by Anthony E. Zuiker, premiered October 6, 2000, ran 15 seasons and 337 episodes, reached number one in ratings, spawned four spin-offs, and gave rise to the debated CSI effect.

CSI: Cyber

CSI: Cyber is a 2015-2016 CBS police procedural, the fourth CSI spin-off, starring Patricia Arquette as FBI cyber psychologist Avery Ryan; 31 episodes over two seasons before its cancellation ended the franchise run.

CSI: Miami

CSI: Miami (Crime Scene Investigation: Miami), the first CSI spin-off, is an American CBS crime drama (2002-2012, 10 seasons, 232 episodes) starring David Caruso as Horatio Caine, created by Zuiker, Donahue, and Mendelsohn, and named the world's most popular TV show in 2005.

CSI: NY

CSI: NY (CSI: New York) is a CBS crime procedural, the third CSI franchise incarnation and a CSI: Miami spin-off, created by Donahue, Zuiker, and Mendelsohn; it ran nine seasons, 197 episodes, 2004-2013, starring Gary Sinise as Mac Taylor.

CTRL (film)

CTRL (कन्ट्रोल) is a 2024 Hindi screenlife thriller directed by Vikramaditya Motwane, starring Ananya Panday as influencer Nella Awasthi, whose AI app erases her ex until it takes control; Netflix, October 4, 2024.

Cuando fui bonita

Cuando fui bonita is a Mexican romantic comedy series produced by TelevisaUnivision, adapted from the 2015 South Korean drama She Was Pretty and starring Geraldine Galván.

Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba Gooding Jr. (born 1968, The Bronx) is an American actor who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Jerry Maguire (1996), broke out in Boyz n the Hood, and earned an Emmy nomination as O.J. Simpson.

Cuban National Ballet

Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the Cuban National Ballet: Havana classical ballet company founded 28 October 1948 by Alicia, Fernando, and Alberto Alonso; nationalized after the 1959 revolution; home of the Cuban school of ballet, famed for its Giselle and dancers such as Carlos Acosta.

Cube (1997 film)

Cube (1997) is a Canadian sci-fi horror film directed by Vincenzo Natali, also known as キューブ. Six strangers with complementary skills awaken in a deadly maze of cube-shaped rooms; made for $600,000 on one set, it won TIFF and Sitges awards and inspired sequels and a 2021 Japanese remake.